Printable Battery Markets: 2009 and Beyond

This report provides a market and technology analysis of the worldwide market for printed batteries and a forecast of printed battery revenues from 2009 to 2016.

After years of development several firms are finding real world applications for their printed batteries. This report analyzes the opportunities for these products, the strategies of the firms that are manufacturing them, and the printing approaches that they are using. It discusses how the market will evolve in the current worldwide recessionary environment with its lower expectations for the growth of the RFID; a key driver for printed batteries in the past. The report also pinpoints where printed batteries could ultimately offer a cost or manufacturing advantage over today's coin or button batteries. The report also provides profiles of firms that are competing in this sector, the products that they are offering and the markets they are targeting.

Printed batteries are the natural power source for smart packaging, active RFID, powered smartcards, sensor arrays, medical and cosmetic patches and smart bandages; even certain kinds of displays. Not only do printed batteries bring low-cost manufacturing to battery manufacture, but they also enable integrated manufacturing plants to be created in which an entire electronic device including processors, memory and power sources can be created in a single process. And printing batteries is also the obvious way to fabricate power sources on flexible substrates, especially paper. This report provides an in depth discussion of the printed batteries market in 2009 and a forecast of where this exciting new business is headed.
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E.1 Developments in the past year
E.2 Summary of opportunities in the printed battery market
E.3 Prospects for cost reduction in the printed battery market
E.4 Non-price-based strategies for printed battery makers
E.5 Printed batteries as an enabling technology for RFID, smart packaging, etc
E.6 Summary of eight-year market forecasts for printed batteries
Chapter One: Introduction

1.1 Background to this report
1.1.1 Printed batteries vs. thin-film batteries
1.1.2 Current prospects for printed batteries in RFID
1.1.3 Other (and better?) growth markets for printed batteries
1.1.4 Likely future developments in printed battery technology
1.2 Objective and scope of this report
1.3 Methodology of this report
1.4 Plan of this report
Chapter Two: Printed Battery Technology

2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 Advantages of printing batteries
2.1.2 Cost, economies of scale and other challenges for printed batteries
2.2 Printed battery chemistries
2.2.1 Zinc manganese dioxide
2.2.2 Carbon zinc
2.2.3 Other chemistries
2.2.4 Potential for solid electrolytes in printed batteries
2.3 Printing techniques used for batteries
2.3.1 Screen printing
2.3.2 Other forms of printing used for batteries
2.4 Competing technologies
2.4.1 Button and coin batteries
2.4.2 Other types of thin-film batteries and fuel cells
2.4.3 Organic photovoltaics
2.4.4 Induction and energy harvesting
2.5 Environmental and safety issues with printed batteries
2.6 Key points in this chapter
Chapter Three: Applications for Printed Batteries

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Active and battery-assisted RFID
3.2.1 Current battery technology used
3.2.2 Roadmap for adoption of printed batteries in RFID
3.2.3 Eight-year forecast of printed battery consumption by the RFID sector
3.3 Contactless and powered smartcards
3.3.1 Credit cards
3.3.2 Security access and biometric ID
3.3.3 Current battery technology used
3.3.4 Roadmap for adoption of printed batteries in smartcards
3.3.5 Eight-year forecast of printed battery consumption by the smartcard sector
3.4 Electronic shelf labels/smart shelves
3.4.1 Current battery technology used
3.4.2 Roadmap for adoption of printed batteries in electronic shelf labels
3.4.3 Eight-year forecast of printed battery consumption by the electronic shelf label sector
3.5 Medical and cosmetic devices
3.5.1 Cosmetic and pharmaceutical patches
3.5.2 Smart bandages
3.5.3 Current battery technology used
3.5.4 Roadmap for adoption of printed batteries in medical and cosmetic devices
3.5.5 Eight-year forecast of printed battery consumption by medical and cosmetic devices
3.6 Sensors
3.6.1 Wireless and other distributed sensor networks
3.6.2 Disposable diagnostic devices
3.6.3 Current battery technology used
3.6.4 Roadmap for adoption of printed batteries in sensors and sensor networks
3.6.5 Eight-year forecast of printed battery consumption in sensors and sensor networks
3.7 Other potential applications for printed batteries
3.7.1 Toys and novelties
3.7.2 Other
3.8 Key points in this chapter
Chapter Four: Profiles of Printed Battery Manufacturers

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Blue Spark
4.2.1 Background to company
4.2.2 Type of batteries produced and printing technology used
4.2.3 Customers and partners
4.2.4 Applications targeted and assessment of business strategy
4.3 Enfucell
4.3.1 Background to company
4.3.2 Type of batteries produced and printing technology used
4.3.3 Customers and partners
4.3.4 Applications targeted and assessment of business strategy
4.4 Planar Energy Devices
4.4.1 Background to company
4.4.2 Type of batteries produced and printing technology used
4.4.3 Customers and partners
4.4.4 Applications targeted and assessment of business strategy
4.5 Power ID
4.5.1 Background to company
4.5.2 Type of batteries produced and printing technology used
4.5.3 Customers and partners
4.5.4 Applications targeted and assessment of business strategy
4.6 Power Paper
4.6.1 Background to company
4.6.2 Type of batteries produced and printing technology used
4.6.3 Customers and partners
4.6.4 Applications targeted and assessment of business strategy
4.7 Prelonics
4.7.1 Background to company
4.7.2 Type of batteries produced and printing technology used
4.7.3 Customers and partners
4.7.4 Applications targeted and assessment of business strategy
4.8 Rocket Electric
4.8.1 Type of batteries produced and printing technology used
4.8.2 Customers and partners
4.8.3 Applications targeted and assessment of business strategy
4.9 Varta and the GREENBAT Project
4.10 Printed battery development at VTT
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